Function influence but does not dictate form

- Eero Saarinen

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

- Eero Saarinen

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephan…

- Eero Saarinen

Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an o…

- Eero Saarinen

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in ev…

- Eero Saarinen

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

- Eero Saarinen

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

- Eero Saarinen

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

- Eero Saarinen